Hastings & Mayock’s The Former World is a multi-media essay on “deep time,” geologic history, the environment, humanity, and the artist. The work uses two focal points: the life and writings of the artist Robert Smithson and the writer John McPhee’s tome on American geologic history, Annals of the Former World.
Fraufraulein is the ongoing duo of Billy Gomberg & Andy Guthrie, generally concerned with improvisation, using location recordings, object play, and their more familiar instruments as markers to drift away from and return to.
Chris Kallmyer’s Mountain Language is a silent film documenting two jazz drummers in a vast desert landscape. Filmed at dawn on the traditional territory and homelands of the Cahuilla people, the piece uses the form of a duet – its ethics and aesthetics – to model the shared stakes of our social, ecologic, and poetic moment.